Firearm.



Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

Warn/fol; marl y" at 4110M WITNESSES of New .York, have invented certain new ping or releasing movement of the sear arrange "iii s'rrrrns CHARLES W. LANG, OF UTICA, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOB, T0 SAVAGE ARMS COMPANY OF UTICA, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

. FIREARM.

To all u'ihom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES W. LANG, a citizen of the United States, residing at Utica, in the county of Oneida and State and useful Improvements in Firearms, of which the following is a. specification.

This invention relates particularly to safety locking devices for firearms.

It has for its object to provide a fire-arm with a simple and reliable locking means, this objecthaving been carried out in the specific form'of the invention shown and described herein with reference to the sear tripping or releasing means of an arm. of the kind illustrated, for instance, in the patent to Searle, No. 936,369 wherein is employed a device for locking the breech-bolt and the firing mechanism, which device I utilize as a detent in obstructing the triptripping or releasing mechanism.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved arm, somewhat enlarged and partly in section; Fig. 2 is a view of the arm partly in plan and partly in section with the breech-structure removed, the plane of the section being coincident with the horizontal plane of the obstructor a; Fig. 3 is a sectional view on the line 10-00 of Fig. 2; and, Fig. 4: illustrates a detail.

The frame a; the barrelb; the breech-bolt 0 having the removable plug d forming therewith a breech-structure which slides on the frame back and forth under the counter influences of the explosiompressu're and 'a spring snot shown); the firing-mechanism in the plug d and including the cocking-lever e, a. firing-pin connected there with anda sear f for locking the firing-pin and lever e in cocked position; the sear-releasing or tripping means vincluding the trigger 9 arranged to slide back and forth in the frame and a sear actuator h movable, by being pivoted, in the trigger crosswise of the path of movement of the trigger for a purpose which will be clear upon reference to the Searle patent aforesaid; and the locking device or detent consisting of a spindle i journaled in the frame and having a handle j and being adapted when turned to the dotted line position in Fig. 1 both to leave the'breech mechanism free to move longitudinally and the. cocking-lever e freeto Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 15,

Patented Dec. 30, 1913.

1912. Serial No. 725,352.

move against the firing-pin (because at that time a lug 7.: of the cocking-lever coincides with a cross-cut slot Z in the spindle i) and being further adapted, when turned into the full line position in Fig. 1,-t0 be received by one or the other of notches (not shown) in the breech-bolt, to lock the breech mecha-. nism against longitudinal movement and to oppose firing movement of the cocking lever (because its slot Z is not in registry with the lug it, which their impinges against the spindle) are or may be ah substantially the same as in the said patent to Searle. In the inner face of the said wall of frame a to which the sear actuatorh is adjacent is formed a horizontal guideway m, the. .same being a groove extending from the; spindle a forward to a point beside the actuator h, excepting where the pafititionflbt separates the magazine chamber in the grip portion 0 of the arm from the recess? partly'receiving the sear releasing meant, where (through said partition) said "way takes the form of an aperture g. In this way slides the searreleasing-mechanism-movement-obstructor r in the form of a rod or bar which is housed within the groove portion ofthe way and is kept in place partly by fitting the aperture q,'wh1ch it penetrates, and partly by the' bored therein in such relation that said hole will register with the pin y when the detent is moved to the dotted line position in Fig. 1. The slot and pin connection w-sc be. tween the rod 1" and actuator h obviously allows free movement of the latter crosswise of the path of movement of the sear'trippingmechanism,although movement of said mechanism back and forth in tripping the sear will by saidconnector be transmitted to the rod 7.

In the position shown in the drawings, where the locking device or detent is ob; structin'g the firing-movement of the cock ing lever and locking the breech-mechanism againstl longitudinal movement, the sear tripping or releasing mechanism cannot be moved because ,the obstruetor opposes movement of said mechanism and has its own movement opposed by said (:let'ent; on mov-- ing the detent, however, to the dotted line position, so that. the co'ckinglever may move on the tripping of the sear, since hole a now registers with pin 7 the sear tripping mechanism may be moved back' to actuate the searj 7 Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is 1. In combination with a gun having a frame, a firingmechanism, and a normally retracted releasing means for the firing mechanism movable in the frame, a movement-obstructor for the releasing means slidable in the frame, and a locking device for the firing mechanism controlling the sliding movement of said movement obstructor, substantially as described.

2, In combination with a gun having a frame, a cockable firing mechanism, and mechanism, including releasing means for the firing mechanism, movable thriistwise in the frame, a locking device common to both said mechanisms, substantially as described.

3. In combination with a gun having a frame, a firing mechanism, and a normally retracted releasing means for the firing mechanism movable in the frame and ineluding a firing mechanism actuator movable crosswise of the path of movement of said means, means for locking the releasing means against movement including an ob= structor movable with said releasing means and having lost motion connection with the actuator, substantially as described.

4. In combination, with a gun having a frame, a cockable firingunechariism including a sear, and a normally. retracted releasing means for the sear movable in the frame and including a sear-actuator movable crosswise of the path of movement of said means, means for locking the releasing means against movement including an obstructor movable with said releasing means and having a slot and pin connection with the actu ator, substantially as described.

5. In combination, with a gun having moving parts to be locked, locking devices for said parts respectively controlling the latter and one controlling the other, the controlling device being rotary and the controlled device thrustwise movable, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES W. LANG.

Witnesses: L Jos. G. SLIKER, Jos. A. DAVIS. 

